Scott already wrote about this one yesterday… A lot of people have been asking for a Linux VirtualCenter client for a long time. I’m sorry this is not the announcement for the official client. But there might be a decent Linux, Mac and Windows client coming up. There’s a beta going around of a product [...]

John just added a whole bunch of cool new blogs to the Planet V12 RSS Feed! What an enormous list of cool blogs and news sites. This is almost too much! It would be cool if there were at least two sections, technical and news for instance. I know not every blog is that strict [...]

I was just checking out the scripts on the VI Powershell Contest. There’s some really cool stuff on there. One of the things I noticed is that out of the 16 contestants so far at least 5 are from the Netherlands!!! Anyway, there are some cool scripts on this page, check it out. And if [...]

Cisco just bought PostPath, PostPath offers a Linux-based e-mail, calendaring and collaboration solution. It is interoperable with many other e-mail solutions and provides a browser-independent AJAX Web client. In addition, PostPath’s software is compatible with a number of mobile clients. Most of you guys probably know Zimbra, an open source competitor of Exchange… PostPath can [...]

I’ve never been a huge fan of agents in the Service Console. Too many times I’ve seen hosts fail because of an agent that had a memory leak etc. Now it seems that running the HP IM agents causes your ESX 3.5 U2 to become unavailable after a certain amount of time.
The errors that appear:
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There are some really useful topics on SRM on the VMTN forum, for those interested in SRM be sure to check them out:
SRM bunch of questions
Some unanswered questions
How to backup and recover a recovery plan
I just love the VMTN forum! So if you’re still not signed up and participating be sure to join asap cause [...]

I’ve been looking for this one for some time now. I know there are several tools out there that do the same but none of them are Freeware! Check out WinDirStat. It’s free and gives you a great overview of which folder contains the MB’s! This can be very useful on fileservers when your disks [...]

About a month ago I got an email about problems with upgrading VMware tools on a Linux VM. When upgrading VMware tools all modifications done in /etc/fstab after the VMware tools section would be deleted. I never got the chance to actually test it myself but now a KB article popped up and confirmed the [...]